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Martinez v. School Board of Hillsborough County, 711 F. Supp. 1066 (M.D. Fla. 1989)

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled that a developmentally disabled child with AIDS could not be excluded from a Trainable Mentally Handicapped (TMH) classroom if she posed no serious risk of HIV transmission. The court had or ...

Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm

Leckelt v. Board of Commissioners of Hospital District No. 1, 909 F.2d 820 (5th Cir. 1990)

The Leckelt case concerns a nurse who was discharged by his hospital employer when he refused to provide the hospital with HIV test results. The hospital requested Leckelt’s test result when it determined that he was gay and was the “roommate” of a patien ...

Anonymous (not verified) - 3/31/2016 10:51am

Baxter v. City of Belleville, 720 F. Supp. 720 (S.D. Ill. 1989)

Relying on the Seventh Circuit's four-prong impact analysis outlined in Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. v. Village of Arlington Heights, 558 F.2d 1283 (7th Cir. 1977), the District Court found that denying a special use permit to open a reside ...

Anonymous (not verified) - 2/25/2020 4:14pm

Ass'n of Relatives and Friends of AIDS Patients v. Regulations and Permits Admin., 740 F. Supp. 95 (D. P.R. 1990)

Plaintiff applied to the Regulations and Permits Administration for a special use permit to open an AIDS hospice. Under considerable and sustained pressure from community groups opposed to the hospice, the defendant rejected the special use application, a ...

Anonymous (not verified) - 2/25/2020 4:19pm

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1577 U.N.T.S. 3 (1989)

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (“CRC”) is an international treaty that discusses many of the rights children, some of which are in addition to those also enjoyed by adults. Particularly relevant to HIV/AIDS issues are: the right to life and cor ...

Anonymous (not verified) - 9/29/2020 4:48pm

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.

Passed by Congress in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was intended to ensure that people living with disabilities have access to all of the same opportunities as those without disabilities. The ADA extended coverage provided by the Rehabil ...